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The Criminal Behaviour of Young Fathers

CReAM Research by Christian Dustmann and Rasmus Landersø, finds that very young fathers who have their first child while they are still teenagers subsequently commit less crime if the child is a boy than if it is a girl. This then has a spill over effect on other young men of a similar age living in the same neighbourhoods as the young father. The research was covered on the British press.

Professor Dustmann and Dr Otten are coauthors in the first report in CEPR's Monitoring International Integration series, Europe's Trust Deficit: Causes and Remedies. They analyse the roots of the decline in trust in both national and European political institutions, as reflected in the rise of populist politics.

Previous Research Fellow

Carolina Ortega is an Assistant Professor at Universidad Nacional de Tucuman and independent consultant at Compass Lexecon. She obtained her PhD from the Department of Economics at Universidad de Alcalá de Henares in Madrid, Spain, in 2007. She graduated in B.Sc Economics from the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina. Subsequently, she obtained her Diploma de Estudios Avanzados (Equivalent to M.Sc in Economics) in 2003. Her main research interest is applied labour economics, with a particular focus on issues of immigration.

She visited CReAM from October 2006 until June 2007 under the EU program - Transnationality of Migrants (TOM).